1. What are the foundations of your research? (Art Identity)
I am a painter. The elements on which I have focused my attention in recent years are the geometric balance of the image, the texture of the surface and the interactions between colours.
2. Who are the artists who have guided you in your research?
Wanting to go back to the origins, I would say Mondrian and Malevic.
3. Define yourself as a human being using three adjectives.
Introspective, stubborn, confident.
4. According to your vision, where is contemporary art going and where would you like it to go?
I can't say in which direction contemporary art is going. Certainly painting, understood in the traditional sense, has lost its centrality, although I believe that it is still an irreplaceable experience and that it is more than legitimate to practice it today. But that doesn't worry me much. Instead, I find more disturbing the fact that money has become predominant in the art world, to the point that sometimes the aesthetic operation is identified with market operations, where all the subjects involved play their part (including the artist) and act for purely economic purposes. We should bring the artist's work back to the center of our attention.
He was born in 1968, lives and works in Salorno in the province of Bolzano. He graduated in Conservation of Cultural Heritage in Udine with Leonardo Quaresima, discussing a thesis on "The cinematographic writings of Giulio Carlo Argan". In 1996 he won the prize for the cover image of the catalog of the Eightieth collective exhibition organized by the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in Venice. In 2003 he was invited by the Mart to exhibit in the Situations-Trentinoarte exhibition. In 2006 he exhibited at the La Liba gallery in Pontedera presented by Giorgio Bonomi. In 2008 he took part in Aniconica: new presences in painting at the Zappettini Foundation in Chiavari. In the same year, one of his monographic volumes was published in the Percorsi del colore series, edited by Claudio Cerritelli for Nicolodi Editore. In 2010 it was presented by Walter Guadagnini in an exhibition with Igino Legnaghi at the Ars Now Seragiotto gallery in Padua. In 2011 he is present in The silent ways of abstraction in Castel Ivano and Borgo Valsugana, edited by Fiorenzo Degasperi. In this period, parallel to his pictorial activity, he is interested in stained glass techniques and realizes the glass decoration of the new cathedral of Antibari in Montenegro. The exhibition activity continues with the participation in 2012 in Cantos, an exhibition curated by Federico Mazzonelli at UpLoad in Trento and NeroCubo in Rovereto. In 2013 he set up a personal exhibition at Casa Gallo in Vicenza. In 2014, UpLoad again dedicated a solo exhibition to him as part of the initiative Comparisons: art and architecture in Trentino 1966-1986. In 2015 with Bruno Querci he created an exhibition at the Giraldi Gallery in Livorno entitled A rigorous abstraction and curated by Giorgio Bonomi. In November of the same year he was invited by the MAG of Riva del Garda to exhibit in Supernova curated by Dennis Isaia and Federico Mazzonelli. From 2016 is his participation together with Gianni Pellegrini in L'angolo bello, in the spaces of Villa Salvadori-Zanatta in Meano, with the presentation of Gabriele Salvaterra and in Trame pictoriche with Paolo Iacchetti and Alessandro Traina at Castel Negrino Arte Contemporanea, curated by Matthew Galbiati. In 2017 he created the solo exhibitions Il colore unico at Arena Studio d'Arte in Verona with the presentation of Vittoria Coen and Square at Maurizio Caldirola Arte Contemporanea in Monza, curated by Gabriele Salvaterra. In 2018 he exhibited at the Galleria Civica in Trento in the Ex post exhibition and set up a personal exhibition at the Artesilva gallery in Seregno. In the same year he also exhibited at the Kn space in Trento together with Sandro de Alexandris. In 2019 he exhibited with Italo Lanfredini and Marta Allegri at the Disegno gallery in Mantua. In recent years, the two personal exhibitions at the Civic Gallery of Laives and the Kunstforum of Egna, and the collective exhibition at the Forte di Fortezza, as part of the Bolzano Biennale, are worth mentioning. Finally, from last year is his participation in the collective Cromologia, set up in the halls of the Palazzo Assessorile of Trento.
